Remove Invasives Partnership (RIP) and the Joint Task Force on Invasives put a bounty on invasive Bradford pear trees this ...

The Franklin Soil and Water Conservation District will give money to residents who replace Callery pear trees with native ...

From beloved to banished, cities and states are outlawing cultivars of the Callery pear, a popular, yet highly invasive, ...

Using a cutting or a young tree from a nursery are the best — and simplest — options. Of course, you could be tempted to use ...

This isn't just because pears are delicious. It's because caring for a pear tree is pretty simple. Asian pear trees (Pyrus pyrifolia) are the easiest to maintain because they handle water shortages ...

Sarah Cooper, right, tosses a tub of shumard oak tree seedlings onto a trailer in March 2025 at George O. White State Forest Nursery, in Licking, Missouri. The tractor takes the seedlings to a ...

The Colorado State Forest Service (CSFS) is leading the project to overhaul its Seedling Tree Nursery, located on the Foothills Campus of Colorado State University. Backed by $10.3 million from ...

Yeyasso has also taken actions like geo-mapping its farms, setting up tree nurseries and planting about 140,000 new cocoa, fruit and shade trees. But it is also the first globally to trial a new ...

One flowering tree that does not stand up well to harsh weather conditions – making it one of the worst trees to plant in the stormy Midwestern climate – is the Bradford pear tree. Bradford pears do ...

The price of one tree was the removal of another. The giveaway was part of the Bradford Pear Bounty Exchange, a project that aims to replace an invasive species of pear tree with native alternatives.

Conservationists are again speaking out against Bradford pear trees, saying the popular tree can cause major problems for homeowners. "I decided right then, 'Well, I'm tired of fighting with the tree, ...